10 Totally Backwards Wrestling Match Stipulations
4. Judy Bagwell On A Forklift - New Blood Rising, 2000
The closing days of WCW are like being able to sit at a distance and watch the Titanic sink. It's horrible, but such a spectacle that you can't take your eyes off it. At this point, Vince Russo had creative control, and with the few buffers that the WWE creative staff had played when he was there not around, he was free to completely lose his mind.
Thus was born Judy Bagwell On a Forklift.
Buff Bagwell and (Positively) Kanyon were in the midst of a program. To ramp things up, Kanyon began stalking Buff's mom Judy, before finally kidnapping her and challenging Buff to a match to retrieve his mom. His condition, however, was that Judy had to be on a pole, and if Kanyon won Buff's mom was his new valet.
Think about that for a sec. The resolution of illegal kidnapping and human trafficking was to be decided by a wrestling match.
When the match began, Kanyon drove out with Judy on a forklift, because, in his words, he couldn't find a pole that would 'hold that big fat battle axe.'
Yep. Somehow Kanyon got a forklift, tied a kidnap victim to it, and made it to the ring. Why was no one in WCW shocked by this, either kayfabe or for real?
Add in a David Arquette run-in and you have a historically bad match even WCW diehards have trouble defending.